About two weeks ago, Amanda was going to bed when she noticed that Ava’s eye looked a little red.  When she woke up the next morning, Ava’s eye was all crusty and had  yellow-white gunk coming out of it.  We spent the day cleaning the eye with warm water and cotton balls hoping that it would clear up by itself.  The next day, it was time for a visit to the vet.

The vet checked her eye to make sure there were no debris lodged under her second eyelid and then diagnosed her with conjunctivitis, or pink eye.  We learned that this is a common condition seen in dogs and may be caused by a number of things.  Like pink eye in humans, it can also be highly contagious.  WebMD has lots of good information about conjunctivitis.

We were given an ointment with a neosporin-like consistency that we needed to apply to her eye three times a day for a week.

Thankfully, Ava is very tolerant of being touched all over because you have to squeeze the ointment into her open eye and then massage it all around.  Here is a really great video explaining how to do it.

We were all thankful when Ava’s eye started to clear up about a week later.  It was short-lived, though, because the infection then spread to her other eye!  After another round of treatment we are finally pink eye free!